Position: Technical PM Mainframe
Locaiton: Phoenix, AZ
Contract: 6+ months
NO H1Bs for this
USC or GC only
Interview: skype
Job Description
American Express is embarking on an exciting transformation driven by an energetic new team of high performers. The GMNT (Global Merchant Network Technologies) is nimble and creative with the power to shape our technology and product roadmap. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative payment products and services at a rapid pace, serving our customers seamlessly across physical, digital, mobile, and social media, join our transformation team!
Job Responsibilities:
- Responsible for planning, directing and coordinating projects from initiation through to implementation.
- Leads cross-functional project teams and works with product owners to determine and translate business requirements into technology solutions.
- Responsible for managing project costs, resources, change requests, risk and issues to ensure that maximum business benefit maintained as well as provision of regular project status updates.
- Develops high-level project plans and ensures that the scope and approach are fully understood by all stakeholders.
- Maintains dependency plan between planned sprints or waterfall projects across engineering, infrastructure, and third parties across the waterfall and Agile work streams driving the release and implementation
- May have people management responsibilities
- Breaks down barriers and shields the team from impediments precluding engineers from making progress against sprints and deadlines
- For agile project organizes and facilitates daily stand-ups and retrospectives at the end of each sprint, and creates an environment in which the team is continuously learning from the past
- Engages with Product Owner, Business Stakeholders, and delivery team to understand Business needs and identify appropriate solutions
- Performs hands-on reviews of product backlog/requirements, designs, code, test scripts, and results as needed in addressing delivery impediments or product quality issues
- Uses their technical acumen to provide design alternatives, ask probing questions, support team in technical issue resolution
- Tracks and communicates team velocity, financials, and other KPIs in relation to the plan and published progress reports
- Coordinates communications, escalates and facilitates resolution of risks, issues, and changes tied to the product development initiatives
- Applies judgment and discretion on when to raise issues versus work through issues with the team
- Facilitates discussions and looks beyond the obvious for continuous improvement
Qualifications
Required Skills/Qualifications:
- 6+ years of technical delivery experience with a demonstrated track record of increasing responsibility and driving larger complex programs with dependency across waterfall and Agile workstream
- Strong leadership skills to manage multiple stakeholders; Prior people management skill is a strong plus
- Experience with design and coding in Database Platform/applications, such as DB2, Oracle, Mainframe, BI database tools
- Experience facilitating Agile, Scrum, or other rapid application development teams to deliver technology solutions on time, on budget, and to spec
- bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering or related discipline or equivalent work experience
Thanks,
Venkat Yata
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